Dr. Ruth Wolff

Associate Scholar

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E-Mail: wolff@khi.fi.it

Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie und Neueren deutschen Literaturwissenschaft in Erlangen und München. Promotion 1992 über den hl. Franziskus in Schriften und Bildern des 13. Jahrhunderts. Stipendiatin des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte in München, des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut und des Max-Planck-Instituts für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt a.M. 2000 bis 2003 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. 2005 bis 2008 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz, in der Abteilung Gerhard Wolf, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt a. M., mit dem Projekt "Siegel-Bilder", gefördert von der Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung. 2011 bis 2014 Projektleiterin des DFG-Projekts "Insculpta imago - Das Siegel als Paradigma eines Bildkonzepts des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit" an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin in Kooperation mit dem Kunsthistorischen Institut in Florenz. 2015 bis 2024 freiberufliche Fachübersetzerin kunsthistorischer Texte aus dem Italienischen, Englischen und Französischen ins Deutsche, u. a. für den Hirmer Verlag, Michael Imhof Verlag, Schnell & Steiner Verlag, De Gruyter Verlag und das Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon (AKL). 2018 bis 2024 freie Mitarbeiterin des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut. Seit April 2024 Projektleitern des DFG-Projekts „‘Authentizität‘, ‚Stil‘ und ‚Originalität‘ – Die Miniaturen, Zeichnungen und Zeichen von Notaren auf und in Gerichtsbüchern des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts im Staatsarchiv von Florenz - der Bestand ‚Giudice degli appelli e nullità‘ (1338-1491)“ am Stuttgart Reseach Centre for Text Studies der Universität Stuttgart.

  • Franziskus-Ikonologie
  • Sepulkralkunst
  • Siegel
  • Wappen
  • Kunst/Recht
  • Wort/Bild
  • Bildkonzepte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit

"Authenticity", "Style" and "Originality" - The Miniatures, Drawings and Signs of Notaries on and in Court Books of the 14th and 15th Century in the State Archives of Florence - the fund "Giudice degli appelli e nullità" (1338-1491)

The project is concerned with an extensive corpus of miniatures, drawings and signs of outstanding importance for Cultural and Art Studies that has not yet been investigated. The miniatures, drawings and signs are found on the covers of parchment and inside court books of the 14th to th 15th centuries preserved in the State Archives of Florence and were largely created by the same notaries who wrote the texts of the court books. The project focuses on the books of the fund “"Giudice degli appelli e nullità" from 1338 to 1491 (approx. 1,400 books), which are distinguished by their diversity, quality and rarity. The fund will be studied in its entirety and compared with selected examples of the other Collections of court books in the Florentine State Archives. The book covers of the fund will be made accessible in a scientific image database on the website of the Florentine State Archives. The project's guiding questions will focus on the "authenticity", the "style" and the "originality" of notarial drawing and painting, in order to grasp their specific artistic forms, principles and meaning. The project thus aims to open up an important area of drawing and painting practice that has been overlooked by art studies but was omnipresent in medieval and early modern Italy, while at the same time providing new approaches and methods for its study. Through the reconstruction of contemporary concepts and notions of notarial and at the same time artistic drawing, the project aims to make a substantial contribution to the knowledge of the history of art, of art studies and of connoisseurship.

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